Coronavirus outbreak updates: Dec. 14, 2020

As of 11 p.m., Monday, Dec. 14

• The government will compile a 21.84 trillion yen ($210 billion) third extra budget for fiscal 2020 to address the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Monday.
  
  
• The Japanese government will suspend its subsidy program for promoting domestic tourism during the New Year holidays amid a surge in coronavirus cases across the country, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday, upending its efforts to spur an economic recovery despite the pandemic.
  
  
• The kanji for "mitsu," used repeatedly in calls to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, has been picked as the Chinese character best describing this year's social mood in Japan, a Kyoto-based academic organization said Monday.
  
  
• All Nippon Airways Co. launched a flight Monday between Japan's Narita airport near Tokyo and Shenzhen in southern China -- the first international route it has opened since March, when the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic.
  

11 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 13

• The government is considering temporarily excluding Tokyo and Nagoya from its travel subsidy program to spur domestic tourism amid recent spikes in novel coronavirus cases in the cities, a governor who was presented with the plan said Sunday.
  
  
• Key Olympic representatives expressed support for the staging of the Tokyo Games next summer despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as they met virtually for the Olympic Summit convened and chaired by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on Saturday.
  
  
• Nearly nine out of 10 Japanese companies plan to suspend their year-end and New Year parties to help reduce the risk of employees becoming infected with the coronavirus, a recent survey showed, in what would be another pandemic-induced disruption of the country's seasonal traditions.